On the loop
line between Tunstall and
Kidsgrove were the two stations of Goldenhill & Newchapel and Pitts Hill

1851
description of Goldenhill and Newchapel
(before the loop line reached this far north) ........

"GOLDEN HILL, about a mile N. of Tunstall, is a village at
the-northern extremity of the Potteries, in the township or liberty of
OLDCOTT, which contains 714 acres and 1295 inhabitants.
Here are two potteries and a large colliery, the latter belonging to Rt.
Williamson, Esq. Golden Hill Church is a neat structure, in the
Norman style, built in 1842, at the cost of £1800, raised by subscription
and grants. It has 580 sittings, one-third of which are free. The living
is a perpetual curacy, valued at £80, in the patronage of
the Bishop of Lichfield, and incumbency of the Rev. Frederick. Wade, M.A.,
for whom a Parsonage House was built in 1850-1, at the cost of £800, of
which £200 was given by the Diocesan Society. The site was given by
Miss Sparrow, of Bishton. A National School, for about 200
children, has been erected near the church. This school, jointly with that
at Tunstall, has been endowed with £500 by Smith Child, Esq.. The
Methodists have a small chapel here."

"Newchapel, a straggling village, from 2 to 3 miles N. of
Tunstall, gives name to a chapelry district, comprising THURSFIELD
township, (559 acres and 495 souls,) Chell, Wedgwood, and parts of
Stadmoreslow, and Brerehurst townships.
The Church (St. James,) formerly called Thursfield Chapel, is a
neat brick fabric, which was rebuilt by subscription in 1766. The living
is a perpetual curacy, valued at £95, in the patronage of Ralph
Sneyd, Esq., and others, and incumbency of the Rev. Thurstan Forshaw, who
has a neat Parsonage House, built in 1850 at the cost of £700,
raised by subscription and grants.
The National School, built in 1847, has more than 100 scholars. The
church is endowed with land at Norton-in-the-Moors, worth about £70 a
year.

In the church-yard is a tomb inscribed to the memory of that celebrated
engineer, James Brindley, who died at Turnhurst, in 1772, aged 56 ;
but was a native of Tunsted, Derbyshire. Under his engineering skill were
formed the Duke of Bridgewater's and the Trent and Mersey Canals. In 1708,
Dr. Robert Hulme bequeathed to this chapelry an estate of 36acres
at Oddrode, in Cheshire, for the support of a Free School; except
£5 a year for apprenticing poor children, and 30s. for the
minister. This estate is now let for about £90 per annum, and the School
is ably conducted by Mr. W. Litchfield."